AP. 92 THIRD SERMON deliverance from sin, death, and Satan, then they sing that triumphant song, Moses and the men singing the song, and Miriam and the women answering them, and repeating over again the burden of the song, " Sing to the Lord, for he bath triumphed gloriously, the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea," Exod. xv. 1. 20, 21. When a poor soul hath been with Jonah in the midst of the seas, compassed with the floods, closed in with the depths, brought down to the bottom of the mountains, wrapt about head and heart, and all over with the weeds, and locked up with the bars of sin and death, when it hath felt the weight of a guilty conscience, and been terrified with the fearful expectation of an approaching curse, lying as it were at the pit's brink, within the smoke of hell ; within the smell of that brimstone, and scorchings of that unquenchable fire which is kindled for the devil and his angels : and is then by a more bottomless and unsearchable mercy brought unto dry land, snatched as a brand out of the fire, translated unto a glorious condition, from a law to a gospel, from a curse to a crown, from damnation to an inheritance, from a slave to a son ; then, then only, never till then, . is that soul in a fit disposition to sing praises unto God, when God bath forgiven all a man's iniquities, and healed all the diseases of his soul, and redeemed his life from destruction, or from hell, as the Chaldee rendereth it, and crowned him with loving- kindness and tender mercies, turning away his anger, and re- vealing those mercies which are from everlasting in election unto everlasting in salvation, removing his sins from him as far as the east is from the west ; then a man will call upon his soul over ana over again, and summon every faculty within him, and invite every creature without him to bless the Lord,-
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